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I do know that old, pre-WWII ammunition is usually OK if it's been stored in a reasonably cool, dry place. And every once in a while, a WWII bomb or mine gets set off, they seem to go boom just fine. An air bag is, essentially, ordnance, so it's probably very long lived as well.

On my 1991 Lexus LS400 (airbag equipped) under the sunvisor it states that the airbag system should be inspected by the dealer 10 years after the date of manufacture and every 2 years after that, but a Toyota-Lexus tech told me that was only a precaution and it was not necessary and the system would be fine decades down the road.

I have a 1988 Mercedes, which is an even older car with an airbag and I have been told by other 80s MB owners that have had crashes that the bags inflate fine.

My grandmother had one of the first cars with airbags. It was a 1974 Oldsmobile Toronado (airbags were optional on certain full-size 1974-76 GM cars and only about 10,200 were equipped). Anyway in 1987 my uncle crashed the car and the airbags worked fine. I later talked to someone that had one of these with the airbags that they were going to put in a salvage yard because it was in such poor conditions... he deliberately blew the bags and they worked fine. As long as the "airbag", "SRS" or if I recall on my old 1992 Park Avenue and 1991 Camaro "inflatable restraint system" warning light is not on, then it should be fine.

BTW, the 91+ Park Avenue earns very high scores in crash tests.

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